6:00 - 7:30 pm
As part of The Big Read, Raney Bench, Curator of Education for the Abbe Museum will lead a discussion and deeper look into the characterization and stereotypes surrounding Injun Joe in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Explore why some of the less prominent stereotypes in the book have become more contentious and the diverse portrayal of Native people in the story. Participants will learn more about where such notions of Indian identity and character come from and why they remain to this day.
Sponsored by:
Funded by a National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read grant.
Free and open to the public
Location: Chase-Emerson Memorial Library, 17 Main Street, Deer Isle
Noon-1 pm
This annual series of lunch lectures takes place on the third Thursday of January, February, and March and will focus on the Abbe’s blockbuster exhibit Indians and Rusticators: Wabanaki and Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s. The first of these talks will be hosted by historian Bill Haviland. He will detail the history of Wabanaki people after 1920 through the 1960s in Maine, and along the coast.
Sponsored by The Lynam Trust.
Free, open to the public
Location: Abbe Museum Downtown